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Gear Wheels, Central "Amistad" 



and destructive to the cane stubble. It can, therefore, readily be realized that to 

 obtain the privilege of removing a steam plant by which the mills of a sugar mill 

 are being operated and the substitution therefor of electric motors in order to carry 

 out an experiment which may or may not be successful yet is necessary to demon- 

 strate that these motors will serve, required great courage and confidence, not only. 

 on the part of the owner of the mill, Sr. Andres Gomez Mena, but also on the part 

 of Sr Vazquez, whose technical studies and practical work in the electrification ot 

 other pieces of the mill machinery had led him to believe that success would crown 

 his efforts. The economical side of this question must also be considered, as even 



